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Aug 31, 20199 min read
Crime, Killers, and Alternate History
By Wm. Garrett Cothran Everyone has thoughts on time travel. If one thinks of time travel, they in effect think of alternate history. Yet...


Aug 30, 20197 min read
Review - Alternate Peace; Steven H Silver & Joshua Palmatier (eds.), Zombies Need Brains
By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the publisher kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] It...


Aug 29, 20199 min read
Moonbase: Episode 1 - A World Apart
By Samuel O'Slaine Storytelling is an art. It is the art of entertaining an audience by creating a narrative. We’ve decided to try an...

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Aug 28, 20199 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 3 - The R101 and the Imperial Air Service [Part 1]
By Andy Cooke When looking at disasters in history that pushed OTL away from airships, the most common one to come to mind is the...


Aug 28, 201910 min read
Changing The World - Unnatural Limits
By Katherine Foy “If otherwise mountains had arisen, rivers flowed or coasts trended, then how very different would mankind have...

Aug 22, 20191 min read
NEW RELEASE: You've Always Had It This Good
The authors of the award-winning Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson are back. Jack Tindale and Tom Black's new novella tells the...


Aug 20, 20199 min read
Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 2
By Tom Anderson In the first part of this multi-part article, I looked at the millennia-long history of the Mediterranean galley as a...


Aug 16, 20194 min read
Review - Cato's Cavalry Volume I, by Marc Jones
By Adam Selby-Martin I've previously reviewed one of Marc Jones' alternate history titles, The Fireflies of Port Stanley, and was...

Aug 15, 20191 min read
NEW RELEASE: The People’s Flag
Tom Black’s history book from another universe, The People’s Flag: The Union of Britain and the Kaiserreich has been published by Sea...

Aug 15, 20196 min read
Thoughts on Dahomey - 3
By Gary Oswald In the previous articles we have discussed the development of Dahomey in the late 19th century as it ran into the limits...


Aug 14, 20195 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War - Part IX
By Alex Richards In 1629, having fought Denmark to a draw and with Sweden not yet the major active player it was shortly to become,...


Aug 13, 20196 min read
German Soldiers, Jamaican Rebels, Eggnog Cocktails, and the Bible: The Origins of “Tom and Jerry”
By Tom Anderson CAT: Wait, I know this game. It's called cat and mouse, and there's only one way to win; don't be the mouse! LISTER: What...


Aug 11, 20197 min read
First Chapters: La Isla Blanca
By Jack Tindale Welcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books. Today, we have La Isla Blanca, by Jack...


Aug 10, 20199 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs - No World War 1
By Andy Cooke In the last article, I looked at how airships could gain traction by earlier development, making them harder to dislodge...


Aug 9, 201910 min read
Changing The World - Continent Cut Off
By Katherine Foy “Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off” [Apocryphal newspaper headline] In the first article of this series I introduced...


Aug 8, 20193 min read
Review: Storm Front, by Chris Nuttall
By Colin Salt Chris Nuttall is a prolific writer of various genres, including alternate history. In Storm Front, the opening of a series,...


Aug 6, 20197 min read
Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 1
By Tom Anderson The men and women who go to sea have always captured the human imagination. Some nations, often island nations such as...

Aug 4, 20196 min read
Vignette Sunday: Six Against The Dark (1965) dir. Val Guest
By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on...


Aug 2, 20195 min read
Review - War Plan Crimson, by Michael Cnudde
By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the author kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] Sometimes...

Aug 1, 20197 min read
Thoughts on Dahomey - 2
By Gary Oswald In the previous article, I talked about the Kingdom of Dahomey the shift in power there during the 19th century, when the...
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